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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Herbert William Barritt
| birth_date = 12 February 1904
| birth_place = [[Cross Hills]], [[Yorkshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1967|5|26|1904|2|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Lisbon]], [[Estremadura Province (1936–1976)|Estremadura Province]], [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Portugal]]
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Western India cricket team|Western India]]
| year1 = 1939/40–1943/44
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1940/41
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 11
| runs1 = 299
| bat avg1 = 17.58
| 100s/50s1 = –/1
| top score1 = 53
| deliveries1 = 90
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–
| date = 19 November
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/27010.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Herbert William Barritt''' {{postnominal|OBE}} (12 February 1904 – 26 May 1967) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and educator.

Barritt was born in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire|North Yorkshire]] village of [[Cross Hills]] in February 1904. He was educated nearby at [[Keighley Grammar School]], before going up to [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Who's who in U.A.R. and the Near East|last=Blattner|first=Elwyn James|publisher=Paul Barbey Press|year=1956|page=277|volume=22|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7x5XAAAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref> He played [[cricket]] for the [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] Second Eleven in 1926, but did not feature for the Yorkshire first eleven.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12648/all_teams.html|title=Teams Herbert Barritt played for|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-19|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Following his graduation from Cambridge, Barritt moved into teaching and taught in [[British India]]. While in India he played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Western India cricket team|Western India]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]], making ten first-class appearances between 1940 and 1944;<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12648/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Herbert Barritt|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-19|url-access=subscription}}</ref> he [[captain (cricket)|captained]] Western India to the [[1943–44 Ranji Trophy]], becoming the third Englishman after [[Albert Wensley]] and [[Tom Longfield]] to captain an Indian side to the Ranji Trophy. In ten first-class matches for Western India, Barritt scored 231 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 15.40 and a highest score of 49.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12648/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Herbert Barritt|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-19|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In addition to playing for Western India, he also made one first-class appearance for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Rest of India cricket team]] at [[Brabourne Stadium|Bombay]] in 1940,<ref name="FCM"/> a match in which he made his only first-class half century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17288.html|title=Euopeans v The Rest, Bombay Pentangular Tournament 1940/41 (Semi-Final)|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-11-19|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Barritt was the principal of the [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot|Rajkumar College]] in [[Rajkot]] and was made an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1945 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36866|date=29 December 1944|page=29|supp=y}}</ref> He moved to [[History of Egypt under the British#Continued occupation (1922–1956)|British Egypt]] in 1947 to take the position of headmaster at [[Victoria College, Alexandria]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Victoria College : A history revealed|first1=Colin|last1=Clement|first2=Sahar|last2=Hamouda|publisher=[[American University in Cairo Press]]|year=2002|page=14|isbn=9789774247569|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-ZnO9zWAvMC|language=en}}</ref> His tenure as headmaster coincided with a tumultuous period in Egyptian history with the [[Egyptian revolution of 1952]] and the rise to power of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. With the [[Suez Crisis]] of 1956 and the subsequent breakdown in relations between Egypt and the United Kingdom, all the British faculty staff at the college were removed from their posts, including Barritt.<ref>Clement, Hamouda (2002), pp. 180–1</ref> He later died in [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Portugal]] at [[Lisbon]] in May 1967.

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:People from Cross Hills]]
[[Category:Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Schoolteachers from Yorkshire]]
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[[Category:Western India cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Heads of schools in India]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
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[[Category:British people in British India]]

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